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Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage. This book …

Die Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur angewandten Sprachwissenschaft. Mit einem integrativen und interdisziplinaren Analyseansatz werden Textsorten der englischen …

The contributions build a bridge between traditional European lexicography and the diversity of lexicographic practice in Australia, demonstrating the importance of lexicography in …

Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The …

Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.

In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of …

Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has …

More than just a gathering of mining terms, this collection is an heartfelt attempt to bring together the words spoken by miners of the North East pits and how they relate to the …

Essays cover approaches to researching linguistic change, alterations in sounds, word forms, sentence structure, and meaning, and differing explanations for language developments.

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language …

This study focuses on first- and second-generation Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans living in the New York City area. In particular, the author creates a sociolinguistic …